Nashville Court Information, Location and Jurisdiction

Nashville Courts are entrusted with preserving the laws and guidelines set forth by the Tennessee Constitution. Criminal Court, Chancery Court, Juvenile Court, and Probate Court all operate under the court system. The Nashville Municipal Court is the arm of the state judicial machinery that upholds the ideals of justice, liberty, and equality and ensures that peace and harmony reigns in the city.

About Nashville Municipal Courts

The Criminal Court Clerk of Nashville, Davidson County is obliged to perform the clerical duties related to the day-to-day operations of the criminal court, which includes both the General Session Court and the State Trial Court. The court allows free access to its criminal history records at this site: http://ccc.nashville.gov/portal/page/portal/ccc/caseSearch/caseSearchPublic/caseSearchPublicForms/. Provide the name of the defendant, the warrant or ticket number, and the criminal case number. The court also provides detailed background information reports in these categories: CJIS Data and Legacy Data. The CJIS Data includes all General Sessions Court dispositions from January 11, 2000 to date and State Trial Court dispositions from July 11, 2000 onwards. Legacy Data refers to the records that have been posted between 1980 and January 2000.

Nashville Juvenile Court

The Nashville Juvenile Court presides over parental rights, visitation rights, child support, dependency, neglect, abuse, and status offenses like truancy and unruly behavior. The court is also empowered to deal with delinquency cases. However, court case information is classified due to the sensitivity of juvenile proceedings. One elected judge and eight magistrates preside over these cases that are tried at the Juvenile Court.

The court is located at:
100 Woodland Street
P.O Box 196306
Nashville TN 37219-6306

Nashville Probate Court

Nashville’s Probate Court is entrusted with the responsibility of handling all clerical work related to the cases filed in the Probate Division of the Seventh Circuit Court. It thus has to deal with all affairs related to administering a deceased person’s estate, including the probation of wills. The court shares judicial rights regarding creating and supervising conservatorship and guardianships of minors as well as incapacitated or incapable adults. The court handles other types of cases like adult and minor name changes, adoptions, emancipations, and all legal matters related to trusts. Filing a probate case has been made easier by having forms available online at http://www.nashville.gov/circuit/probate/probateforms.asp.

Nashville Chancery Court

The Chancery Court is a court of equity that is empowered to sit over Tennessee constitutional matters, employment lawsuits, contract disputes, commercial litigation, state tax disputes, workers compensation, applications for injunctions, and writs of certiorari. Additionally, the Davidson County Chancery Court also acts as the court of appeals for several administrative bodies like the Tennessee Department of Labor and the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.

Chancery court operations are located at:

Suite 308, 1 Public Square,
Nashville TN 37201